Oldham County voters will have a chance to select nominees for federal and local offices when they head to the polls in one week.

Voters will select the two nominees for U.S. Senate, as well as a host of countywide offices. In the U.S. Senate race, the two main GOP hopefuls are challenger Matt Bevin and U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell. On the Democratic side, the nominee is likely to be Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.

For many voters this primary, heading to the same polling place they always have will be a wasted trip.

That’s because many precincts have changed locations, while four new precincts were created in Oldham County as a result of redistricting and the 2010 Census, County Clerk Julie Barr said.

Both magisterial districts and state House lines are redrawn every 10 years after new census results come in, Barr said. After both of those lines are drawn, it’s up to the clerk to make sure precincts line up with the new maps.

An Oldham County Police officer who was also running for County Judge-Executive has passed away due to natural causes.

David Howley, 51, died last Wednesday night, OCPD Major Jim Laytham, said. Howley died of a natural causes, Laytham said.

Howley had been involved in public service in Oldham County for more than 25 years as a fire fighter, emergency technician and most recently with OCPD. Howley also served with the La Grange Police Department, as well as with Louisville Metro Police. He spent the majority of his time with OCPD.

The process to find a new county road superintendent is officially underway.

The Oldham County Fiscal Court accepted the resignation of former superintendent Lance Lashley at its May 6 meeting. Lashley resigned on April 25 amid an investigation into the misuse of materials at the road department.

In the meantime, Mark Husband, formerly an assistant superintendent, has been approved as the acting superintendent until a new one is hired. The Fiscal Court approved a raise in pay for Husband due to his new responsibilities.

The La Grange City Council has taken the first step in refinancing its part of the bonds owned for the Oldham Reserve development.

At a busy meeting Monday night, the council unanimously approved a resolution entering into an interlocal agreement with the Kentucky Bonding Corporation, which would allow it to pool its new bonds with other cities to get a better deal, Mayor Bill Lammlein said.

“Since we can no longer go to the open market and sell our bonds because of our bad rating, we have to pool,” Lammlein told the council.

The City of La Grange is pleased to announce that Oldham Public Bus will have a special bus run on Election Day, May 20, so people without transportation and the physically impaired can to go the polling places to cast their votes.

The bus will serve the following precincts: C-102 and D-106 at the La Grange Fire House, C-103 and C-106 at La Grange Elementary School and D-101 and F-101 at La Grange Baptist Church.

A crucial highway leading into Westport has been re-opened after the state transportation cabinet shut it down for repairs.

Highway 524 was closed on April 21 so construction crews could repair the deteriorating road, install cross-drains underneath the road and fill in the bordering ditches with rock to prevent future erosion of the highway.